The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions.
In Greek mythology, ferryman of the River Styx, who carried the dead to the underworld. Each dead person was buried with a coin in his mouth or on his eyelids to pay for the crossing.
The only known moon of the planet Pluto.
in Greek myth, the ferryman who rowed dead souls across the River Styx into the underworld
The only known satellite of Pluto.
KA-rohn] Ancient boatman of the Underworld who ferried souls across the River Styx, the symbolic boundary between life and death.
(Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades
An old boatman in Greek mythology who ferried the souls of dead people across the river Styx or the Acheron River to Hades.
A moon of the planet Pluto, also known as Pluto I. Charon is the largest of Pluto's Moons and was discovered in 1978 by James Christy. In Greek mythology Charon was the Ferryman who ferried souls to Pluto's underworld of the dead.
Charon is the only moon orbiting the planet Pluto. It is small, about 1,172 km in diameter. It orbits about 19,640 km from Pluto on average. It may be covered by water ice and probably has no atmosphere. Charon is in a synchronous orbit around Pluto. That is, Charon is always over the same spot on Pluto; Charon's orbit takes exactly one Pluto day. Charon was discovered by Jim Christy in 1978. Charon was named after the mythological demon who ferried people across the mythological river Styx into Hades.
The boatman who took souls across the river Styx in Greek myth.
In Greek mythology, he is the ferryman who carries the souls of the dead across the river Acheron. He has been depicted as a winged demon, a sulky old man or as a skeleton.
Earths) | density = 1.65 ± 0.06 g/cm³ | surface_grav = 0.278 m/s2 | escape_velocity = 0.580 km/s | single_temperature = -220°C (53 K) | rotation = synchronous | axial_tilt = zero | albedo = varies between 0.36 and 0.39 }} Charon (shair'-É™n or kair'-É™n (), IPA , Greek ΧάÏων), discovered in 1978, is, depending on the definition employed, either the largest moon of Pluto or one member of a double dwarf planet with Pluto being the other member. With the discovery in 2005 of two other moons of Pluto (Nix and Hydra), Charon is now also referred to as Pluto I. The New Horizons mission is scheduled to visit Charon and Pluto in July 2015.
In Greek mythology, Charon (Greek ΧάÏων, the brightLiddell-Scott, Greek-English Lexicon s.v. charôn and charopos) was the ferryman of Hades. (Etruscan equivalent: Charun) (Modern Greek Folklore: angel of death: Charos or Charontas) He took the newly dead from one side of the river Acheron to the other if they had an obolus (coin) to pay for the ride. Corpses in some regions in ancient Greece were buried with a coin underneath their tongue to pay the fare.
In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Charon is a powerful altraloth, a lord of the yugoloths, reportedly transformed into a more powerful creature by the night hags of the Gray Waste. Charon's role is to provide travel on the River Styx, but he always charges a steep price and kills those who cannot or will not pay. Charon commands a legion of marraenoloths who provide the same service.